The FY25 cops hiring program (CHP) provides funding to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing…

The Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Program awarded the City of Beaufort $375,000 on October 1, 2025, under the FY25 COPS Hiring Program (CFDA 16.068) to hire and rehire career law enforcement officers in support of community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. The award funds law enforcement hiring aimed at enabling the recipient to engage in planned community partnerships, implement projects to analyze and assess community problems, implement personnel and agency management changes in support of community policing, and increase agency capacity for community policing activities. Performance extends through September 30, 2030, at Beaufort, South Carolina. The assistance type is a Project Grant. The City of Beaufort Finance Department is the recipient organization.

The FY25 cops hiring program (CHP) provides funding to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Anticipated outcomes of CHP awards include engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems, implementation of changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and increased capacity of agency to engage in community policing activities